Bios
An Arabic-language teacher and media personality who became the first Palestinian woman to work as a radio broadcaster
An epidemiologist, ethnographer, and institution builder who made foundational contributions to medicine and health care in Jerusalem and Palestine
An activist who lived through the Nakba and founded and directed the Infant Welfare Center, the first medical center in the Old City of Jerusalem
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A Palestinian Russian woman who worked for the British and Jordanian authorities, demanded political change, and established workshops for destitute women
A pioneering artist of landscape watercolors whose life spanned most of the 20th century and whose work explored “the vision of Jerusalem”
A Palestinian historian and researcher who vividly documented the atrocities of the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982
A professor of Islamic literature who returned to his birthplace, Jerusalem, after 25 years of exile to serve as the first president of Al-Quds University
A formidable figure who dedicated her life to the care of orphans, education of girls and women, preservation of Palestinian culture, and social service
A Jerusalem artist in exile whose predominant themes revolved around depicting the city of her birth
Mayor of Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century who paved the streets and built the city’s public sewage system
A musician and diarist who created an invaluable account of life in Jerusalem from the late Ottoman to the British Mandate periods
A Palestinian scholar, historian, professor, and linguist who made significant contributions and prolific translations into Arabic and articulated and reformulated Islamic principles in a revolutionary manner
A historian, archeologist, and expert on Palestinian cultural heritage and its preservation, with special expertise on Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron
A physician and politician from Jerusalem who played a central role in the Palestinian nationalist movement and left a copious record of it all.
A prominent Ottoman politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem and Jerusalem representative and was a prolific writer, talented linguist, and scholar